AddressLife is Sweet at Australia’s best loved dessert brand
At Sara Lee, we aim to make lives a little sweeter. As Australia and New Zealand’s number one bakery and frozen dessert business we have big plans ahead. Our success is driven by good people, making good food, from good ingredients – and the result is food that makes people feel good. We use 90% local ingredients and employ people into our team who are experts in their field to ensure our product quality and consistency is delivered time after time.
Sara Lee is heading into new exciting stages of growth. We are looking for remarkable people that share our sense of purpose and want to bring this to life for the benefit of our consumers, customers, and our team. With our strong Sara Lee brand legacy and history as being an employer of choice, we're ready to welcome our next new team member to the “sweetheart” of the Central Coast.
About The Role
This sweet opportunity is responsible for delivering an effective, efficient, compliant and accurate payroll function, and assist with general administration and accounts support within the finance team. The Payroll and Admin/Accounts Officer develops, implements and reviews processes, systems and policies that consider employment award and legal requirements and assist the accounting and administration functions of the finance team.
Responsibilities
- Interpret Industrial Agreements such as Awards, Collective Agreements, Letters of Appointment and ensure compliance. Regularly review policies through this lens.
- Manage and continually improve quality and efficiency of work in payroll. Ensure payments to wages and salary employees are made accurately and on time.
- Provide guidance, technical expertise and support on payroll matters.
- Produce and maintain employee data to undertake high level analysis and reporting. Design and distribute specialist reporting as required.
- Oversee the payroll auditing requirements and ensure that they meet internal and external procedural/legislative requirements.
- Manage Payroll and time & attendance software requirements including upgrades, testing and user access requests. Design a training support program for end users.
- Provide administration and accounts support to the finance team, accounts payable and accounts receivable, as and when required.
- Assisting with accounting journals and reconciliations as required.
About You
To be successful in this position, you will bring:
- 5+ years experience with Payroll and Finance Administration
- Advanced experience with Payroll and Time and Attendance systems such as KRONOS/UKG, Sage Micropay, etc
- Solid experience in a similar role preferably within an FMCG/manufacturing industry with EBA/Award based employees
- Demonstrated advance knowledge of employment legislation and experience with interpretation of multiple awards and agreements
- Highly developed organisational skills with a high level of PC literacy
- Intermediate ERP skills
- High level of attention to detail and accuracy
- Intermediate Excel skills
- Knowledge of accounting, journals and basic reconciliations
- Experience with systems integrations, payroll transitions
- Self-starter with hands-on approach & able to work autonomously and within a team environment.
- Ability to work under pressure, adapt to a changing environment and to work with a high level of integrity, collaboration and confidentiality.
If this is the role that you've been waiting for we'd love to hear from you.
